Friday, July 23, 2010

What are the good sides of bacteria???

The most important use of bacteria is they are used in genetical engineering to facilitate molecular cloning.


eg:Bacillus subtilis,Escherichia coli,etc


There are so many other uses which cant be accomodated here as, only 3% of the bacterial species cause harmful effects.








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What are the good sides of bacteria???
The left side. That's the side they want in all the photographs.
Reply:They aid in digesting food in the intestinal system.
Reply:Bacteria live in your gut and help you digest your food. They are perhaps the primary decomposer in soils, working to break down dead stuff and keep the soils healthy and fertile, which allows us to keep growing our food and keep civilization from collapsing! They can partially break down some foods to produce yogurt, cheese, and anything vinagery like ketchup, mustard and pickles. And vinegar. Bacteria also work on sewage in treatment plants to turn it back into nontoxic organic matter and drinkable water.
Reply:Bacteria of decomposition are very helpful breaking down dead materials.


Bacteria are used in food production is: cheese, yogurt, wine, beer, bread, fermented foods,


Denitrifying bacteria and nitrifying bacteria are important in the nitrogen cycle.


Help with fertilization of the soil
Reply:The good sides? It would be quicker to list the bad sides! Only a tiny fraction of the known bacterial species are human pathogens, and slightly more are pathogens of other species. We always hear about these because they have been most extensively studied, for obvious reasons.





But bacteria are amazing organisms. The great survivors, have been here for billions of years, they were the first known cellular organisms on Earth, and they will be the last. The human race could go extinct today and the world wouldn't care, but if bacteria all disappeared then all other life could not survive.





Firstly, they facilitate decay. This might be an inconvenience when you open up your fridge hungry for left-overs and find that it requires a bio hazard team to safely dispose of it, but think about it- without decomposition we'd be swimming in dead organisms, poop and everything else living things shed from their bodies, and the nutrients in them must be returned to the bottom of the food chain so that they may be reused once more. Everything you eat, everything you are, has been part of countless organisms before you, right back to the dawn of life. The nitrogen in the protein of your steak will have spent spend frequent spells in the atmosphere, the ocean, the ground, almost every plant, animal, fungus and other kingdoms of live that you can (or can't) think of before, even other people. Go back far enough in history to allow the time for redistribution and know that you contain molecules from Albert Einstein, George Washington, Charles Darwin, Attila the Hun, Jesus Christ, and if you'll permit the breaking of Godwin's Law, even Adolf Hitler. What allows all this? Bacteria. Fungus also helps in decomposition, but bacteria do most of it. And what decomposes fungus? Well, other fungus, but bacteria also!





Deep in the ocean, surrounding hydrothermal vents dwell entire ecosystems that draw their energy not from the sun, but from the chemicals (Sulphur and it's compounds) released by the vents. Only chemosynthetic bacteria are able to do this, and the entire ecosystem depends upon them.





Bacteria even keep you healthy. For every ten cells you lug around as part of you, nine are symbiotic bacteria. Without them you would feel awful, if you would survive. Mostly in your gut, they aid in digestion, taking some for themselves, and maintain a chemical balance, sometimes defending against infectious invaders that threaten their habitat. They are responsible for farts. Much of them are E. coli, well known during E. coli outbreaks, for mutant strains, may cause problems, or even normal strains if they get somewhere they're not supposed to.





There are countless other natural habitats for bacteria, but we have found a use for them ourselves. They are used in making yogurt and cheese, for instance. They are often genetically modified, bacteria such as E. coli have been given the gene for human insulin and reside in massive vats, producing safe and efficient insulin for diabetics so we no longer have to rely on pigs.
Reply:Bullet Magnet has an excellent answer for this question.
Reply:They help clump your poop together (seriously) so that you don't have ooze coming out your rear all the time.

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